Julie B. Kaplow

Julie B. Kaplow, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine. She is also Executive Vice President of Trauma and Grief Programs and Policy at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and Executive Director of the Trauma and Grief Centers in Houston, TX and New Orleans, LA. Dr. Kaplow is also CEO of the Lucine Center for Trauma and Grief, a group practice that provides no-cost teletherapy to youth exposed to traumas and/or losses across Texas and Louisiana. In these roles, Dr. Kaplow oversees the development, implementation and evaluation of trauma-and grief-informed assessments and interventions for children and adolescents and conducts trainings in these evidence-based best practices nationwide.

Dr. Kaplow has published widely on the topics of childhood trauma and grief and has served as Principal Investigator on numerous grant-funded programs focused on enhancing resiliency in youth exposed to adversity. She is lead author of Multidimensional Grief Therapy, co-author of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents, and co-author of Trauma Systems Therapy. She has served as a consultant to the DSM-5 sub-work group on Prolonged Grief Disorder, the ICD-11 work group on Disorders Associated with Stress, the National Academy of Medicine (Scientific Advisory Council on Child Death), and the Mass Violence and Children work group of the FBI.

Dr. Kaplow received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan and her PhD in clinical psychology from Duke University. She completed her clinical internship at the Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Medical and Refugee Trauma at Boston University Medical Center.